PowerBI Pro licenses

[lideweij]

We have been developing PBI reports for years now and have always used the Report Server on premise. In order to publish the reports we have some PowerBi Pro licenses. 

We are investigating what it would entail if we would migrate to the cloud and use PowerBI.com the online platform instead of PBIRS. 

Since we already have the Pro licenses we thought that we could log on to powerbi.com and try it out (publish a report for instance) but unfortunately we get a message saying "You have selected MS Fabric Free. Your organisation does not allow users to get  Microsoft Fabric free."

Any advice or thoughts on this?

[v-jianpeng-msft]

Thank you lbendlin 

Hi, @lideweij 

Power BI is part of Fabric. Although your organization has turned off the functionality of Fabric, you can still sign in to Power BI instead of Fabric:

https://app.powerbi.com/home?experience=power-bi

Below is Fabric login:

https://app.fabric.microsoft.com/

When anyone logs in to Fabric, if it doesn't have a Fabric license, the Register Fabric free license page pops up.
A fabric free license isn't required to use Power BI.

Best Regards

Jianpeng Li

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[lideweij]

Thank you Jiangpeng and lbendlin,

Yes that's right we got our PBRS licence together with the SQL Server license. We do not want to use Fabric at this point in time; only Powerbi Pro. When I try to log in on the app.powerbi.com I am redirected to the Fabric url and get this message: "you have selected Fabric Free. Contact your IT department to get a free licence". I can't seem to reach the powerbi site.

[v-jianpeng-msft]

Hi, @lideweij 

I totally understand your mood and needs. Let me see if your account is assigned a pro license in the Azure admin portal:

https://admin.microsoft.com/

After my testing, I can log in to Power BI Service directly when I have a pro license.

Best Regards

Jianpeng Li

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[lideweij]

Thank you! I'm a bit confused however: have you checked my licenses? Or are you explaining how to check my licenses?

[v-jianpeng-msft]

Hi, @lideweij 

I explaining how to check your licenses. Your can check it!

[lideweij · Accepted solution]

Our IT admnistrator and I have figured it out. It turned out quite easy in the end. Apparently, the licenses were not assigned to the right Active Directory group. 

[v-jianpeng-msft]

Hi, @lideweij 

Thanks for the feedback! Glad to hear that your problem has been solved. If you'd like, you can mark the reply as a "solution" and mark the helpful reply as a solution, so that others will know that the question has been answered and that other people in the community will be able to help. Thank you again for participating!

Best Regards

Jianpeng Li

[lbendlin]

Previously, when you purchased a Premium SKU subscription you would get Power BI Report Server for free.  You may have gotten it as part of the SQL Server license in your company.  

To use Fabric features you will have to purchase an F SKU.  No idea if that will continue to include Power BI Report Server - or even if Microsoft will still support it once they go all in on Fabric.